Bug 475042 - open link in new window/tab fails
Summary: open link in new window/tab fails
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gvfs
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-06 23:19 UTC by Zing
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 07:04:48 UTC
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Description Zing 2008-12-06 23:19:59 UTC
Description of problem:
In gnome-default-applications-properties, I have seamonkey chosen as the web browser and "Open link in new tab" set.  If I click on a link, say in pan, nothing happens.  I hacked up the /usr/bin/seamonkey to show the parameters being passed to it and it dumps out:

-remote openurl(,new-tab) http://lwn.net

You can see the %s is "ignored/not substituted" in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http and the url is just being appending to the end of the command string.

In gnome-terminal, nothing happens when I click a url, but the browser doesn't even seem to be called, as my hacked up seamonkey script doesn't spit out any parameters.  Is this because "real" gnome apps have a different way of starting default applications?  Anyway, it's broken here too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.24.0.1-9.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in gnome-default-applications-properties configure seamonkey as default browser and choose "Open link in new tab"
2. start pan and click on a link
  
Actual results:
nothing

Expected results:
the link opened in a new tab

Additional info:
1. the -remote command works fine from the command line.  
2. my machine was an upgrade from fc9->fc10 if that matters.

Comment 1 Zing 2008-12-08 19:56:04 UTC
I looked into pan, and it execs the gnome-open command.  So it's much easier to reproduce this bug from the command line:

With browser running:
$ gnome-open http://lwn.net
Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

That used to work and would open in a new tab.

Without browser running:
$ gnome-open http://lwn.net
Error: No running window found

This never worked or at least it doesn't work on F9 machine.

So this probably isn't a control-center bug, but somewhere in the gnome/glib code... not sure where though.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 10:22:36 UTC
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Comment 3 Zing 2009-12-03 21:50:49 UTC
still broken in F12.

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2010-01-14 11:30:53 UTC
Hmm, yes, this seems to be a limitation with the gio g_app_info_create_from_commandline() call. It only supports adding the commands at the end.

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